Protective pocket



Oct. 13, 1964 J. CONVILLE PROTECTIVE POCKET Filed June 25, 1962IMVENTOR:

United States Patent 3,152,339 PROTECTIVE POCKET John Conville, Box 241,Antioch, Ill. Filed June 25, 1962, Ser. No. 204,706 1 Claim. (Cl. 2-250)This invention relates to a protective pocket and, more particularly, toa theft-proof hip pocket for trousers or pants or other article ofapparel.

An object of this invention is to provide a new and improved theft-proofpocket for wearing apparel.

Another object of this invention is to provide a theftproof pocket inwhich a flap is located in said pocket in secured relation theretoforming a divider for the pocket with a space between the flap and apocket wall for receiving a wallet or the like.

Still another object of the invention is to provide a theft-proof hippocket for pants comprising, a pocket with inner and outer walls, and apair of connected flaps of material secured one to each of said pocketwalls near the top thereof to form an auxiliary pocket therebetween anda hidden space for wallet storage between a flap and the pocket innerwall.

Further objects and advantages will become apparent from the followingdetailed description taken in connection with the accompanying drawingsin which:

FIG. 1 is a fragmentary elevational view of trousers or pants showing ahip pocket with the invention associated therewith in broken line;

FIG. 2 is a fragmentary perspective view, taken generally along the line22, with the parts expanded for purposes of illustration; and

FIG. 3 is a view similar to FIG. 2 showing the added flaps withdrawnfrom their normal position located within the pocket.

While this invention is susceptible of embodiment in many differentforms, there is shown in the drawings and will herein be described indetail an embodiment of the invention with the understanding that thepresent disclosure is to be considered as an exemplification of theprinciples of the invention and is not intended to limit the inventionto the embodiment illustrated. The scope of the invention will bepointed out in the appended claim.

The invention disclosed herein is intended for use with a pocket orpockets of wearing apparel to render a pocket more nearly theft-proofthan heretofore known. For purposes of illustration, the pocket is shownin association with mens trousers or pants, indicated generally at 10,having a supporting belt 11 associated therewith.

The pocket is indicated generally at 12 and, as shown, is formed from aninner wall 13 and an outer wall 14 with the outer wall being secured tothe trousers near the top thereof. As shown in the drawings, the top ofthe outer wall lies between layers 15 and 16 of trouser material and thethree parts are stitched together as by stitching 17. The inner pocketwall 13, as is known in the art, extends upwardly to a position (notshown) for securement between a part 18 of the trouser material and theconventional waistband located within the trousers. The pocket walls 13and 14 are stitched together along their edges to form the pocket, as isalso known in the 3,152,339 Patented Qct. 13, 1964 "ice art. Thegenerally conventional pocket structure also includes an additionalsection 19 of trouser material stitched to the part 18 of trousermaterial as indicated at 21 to finish off the interior look of thepocket. A closing flap 21 coacts with a button 22 for closing thepocket.

The structure described hereinafter is added to the pocket to make thepocket more nearly theft-proof by providing a hidden space for a walletto keep the wallet out of sight and also to render it less easy forremoval of a wallet from the pocket. This structure comprises a lengthof flexible material, such as cloth, having an inner flap 23 and anouter flap 24 which are movable relative to the pocket, as will be notedby comparing FIGS. 2 and 3. The inner flap 23 is connected between thepocket inner wall 13 and the section 19 of trouser material, as bystitching 25. The outer flap 24 is connected to the section 16 oftrouser material and the pocket outer flap 14, as by stitching 26, sothat the flaps are secured to the pocket but are movable relativethereto. The length of material forming the flaps 23 and 24 has a widthclosely approximating that of the pocket and is intended to be at leastof a width to span a major part of the pocket to provide a hidden walletstorage space between the inner flap 23 and the inner wall 13 of thepocket. This is illustrated in FIG. 2 in which a wallet 30 is shownbehind the inner flap 23, but pulled out slightly for purpose ofillustration. The material is also of a length approximately two timesthe height of the pocket, so that the flaps 23 and 24 extend to adjacentthe bottom of the pocket.

In use, it is possible to insert and remove the wallet 30 with the flaps23 and 24 remaining disposed within the pocket, or the flaps can beremoved partially or entirely from within the pocket as shown in FIG. 3for insertion or removal of the wallet. As seen in FIG. 2, the wallet 30is located within the hidden space, while the space between the twoflaps 23 and 24 defines an auxiliary pocket.

I claim:

A protective pants pocket construction for pants including a pocket witha pair of spaced apart inner and outer walls secured individually toparts of said pants, at length of flexible material having a width toextend across a major part of said pocket, a first end of said materialstitched to said pocket inner wall near the top thereof and a second endstitched to said pocket outer Wall near the top thereof, said materialhaving a length sufiicient to define two movable flaps with the bottomof the flaps abutting the bottom of the pocket with the space betweenthe pair of flaps defining an auxiliary pocket and a hidden space forwallet storage between a flap and the pocket inner Wall, and the sideedges of said length of material being free edges to allow the materialto be lifted out of the pocket so that a wallet could be inserted undersaid material and into said pocket.

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